Gay Studies category: 1383 books
by Marcia Hill, Mary Ballou
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Explore the obstacles and challenges involved in bringing feminist values and techniques into mainstream therapy
Feminist therapy has been challenging mainstream therapy thinking and practice for the past thirty years. The Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy is the first book to provide...
Wagadu Vol 16
A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Despite the hype of intersectionality and diversity, they remain predominantly symbolic commitments in academic discourses, policy measures and institutional practices. The rhetoric of diversity and intersectionality is strategically mobilized to deflect charges of racism and hetero/sexism, even as...
Sexual Disorientations
Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory,...
Nature's Choice
What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
The true role of biology in determining sexual orientation is an oft-debated issue in both the popular media and scientific communities, and evaluating the literature on the topic can be daunting. Nature’s Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation offers both...
Transgender Identities (Open Access)
Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In recent years transgender has emerged as a subject of increasing social and cultural interest. This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world. The first section, "Emerging Identities," maps the ways in which social, cultural, legal and medical...
Lesbian Epiphanies
Women Coming Out in Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Exploring identity development and gender orientation, Lesbian Epiphanies: Women Coming Out in Later Life contains firsthand information about the experiences and difficulties of women who discover and reveal their newfound lesbian sexuality in later life. Psychologists, social workers, counselors,...
by Paul Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Heterosexuality is a largely ‘silent’ set of practices and identities – it is assumed to be everywhere and yet often remains unnamed and unexplored. Despite recent changes in the theoretical understanding and representation of sexuality, heterosexuality continues to be socially normative.
Forging...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Through personal narratives and case studies, this fully updated second edition explores the childhood and adolescent experiences of transgendered persons. Addressing the differences between male-to-female (MTF) and female-to-male (FTM) individuals and identifying the specific challenges of transgender...
Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk
A Study in Social Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk expands on Carpenter’s idea of the Intermediate type; a person of mixed sexes such as a feminine body with a masculine mind or vice versa. Originally published in 1914, this text explores the role that intermediate types played amongst early civilisations...
Metroimperial Intimacies
Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects....
Touching Feeling
Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick...
The Church and the Homosexual
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In this "brave and good book which shatters bad myths" (Commonweal), McNeill shows that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality, and argues that the Church must not continue its homophobic practices.
Queer Christianities
Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Queerness and Christianity, often depicted as mutually exclusive, both challenge received notions of the good and the natural. Nowhere is this challenge more visible than in the identities, faiths, and communities that queer Christians have long been creating. As Christians they have staked a claim...
by Suzanna Rose
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Explore the broad range of healthy lesbian attitudes and behaviors in love, friendship, self-image, and society!
This pioneering book makes a revolutionary assumption: that lesbian and bisexual women are normal, if not average. Instead of focusing on which family or genetic quirks might produce...